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a poem about an abduction in my NYC neighborhood
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I am long of tooth, too, and when I go, maybe a box with my ashes inside will join the boxes containing the cats’ remains.
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And when at night you stare
at dark walls and one pair of lips
comes closer, whispering in perfect German
Ich bin deine Mutter -
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The night was a lilac bowl of darkness
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You climb on a stool, drink off the first glass without coming up for air. Man, that tastes good!
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A boy stalks three deer across an open field.
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The Cheshire grinning/
moon cups itself to capture/
Venus should she fall.
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I used to score girls by taking them on a ride past Frauenstein, up on a hill where you could see the trees, the whole lot of them sparkling white and pink in the breeze.
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Sometimes cats had to die or dogs
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You don't make money worrying about other people's feelings. I learned that from my father at an early age. He managed rental properties, which I, his daughter, now own. He wanted a son, so I became one.
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We were always thrilled that the moon worked the night shift. In high school, often bored with the two drive-in movies, we'd sometimes go to tent revivals on our dates and get healed or get saved depending upon what that “tent-housed”…
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The mouth is peculiar and so are the shoes.
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My mother used to say she'll be just like you and you‘ll deserve it. I was a Punk Rocker. A rebel. Emily worries about things like grades and sports. She's on the soccer team. I got stoned under the bleachers. Emily, is a good kid. …
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I stare, out a dirty window, / into the sanitary blackness.
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The bungalow was unlocked. The screen
door was unhooked. The trout on the
counter was deboned.
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The world is full of dead dogs
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Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a word.
Do we have to?
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“Sorry, I farted,” Ted says after the nurse leaves. He squeezes my hand like he’s telling me grave news.
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and say did you know it was written just for you? But I will. No one will walk up to you on the busy street one day and say did you know he loved you this much? But I'm telling you now. What good would a pyramid be or a hanging garden or a starry…
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Mama reads about UFOs in paperback books and newspapers with big cloudy pictures. Her girlfriends know about flying saucers, too. They get drunk at night when they are sitting all alone in their living rooms because they are divorced or married to men who
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I thought each day died inside the clock.
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Maybe she would get married and have a baby, she said. Not with me, I said
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They come to mind/
like ice flowers/
on the small panes
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The eggs got badder as the cook got madder
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Dear End of the World. We're having a party. Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.
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The river’s not/
a river but/
a FEMA map/
of flooding probabilities.
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Mabel constructed the quintessential boundary. She carefully boiled down her pots and pans, her jewelry, her copper kettle, and the foils from forty six bottles of white pear cider into a silky metallic stew. Mable smeared the mixture onto a burlap…
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